March 17, 2006
ST STANDS FOR SAINT, NOT SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED:
Remark About Gays Shadows St. Pat's Parade (VERENA DOBNIK , 03.17.2006, AP)
As huge, happy crowds lined the streets, the chairman, John Dunleavy, sidestepped questions about his remarks to The Irish Times."Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage, everything else is secondary," he said before the start of the Fifth Avenue parade.
Dunleavy set off a firestorm this week when he told the newspaper: "If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?"
Referring to the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Dunleavy said, "People have rights. If we let the ILGO in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?"
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2006 5:43 PM
christian groups should start requesting to be allowed to march in gay pride parades.
Posted by: toe at March 17, 2006 6:42 PMin fact, they should join and take over every gay and leftist organization going.
Posted by: toe at March 17, 2006 6:43 PMThere's an Irish Prostitute Association?
Posted by: Brandon at March 17, 2006 8:40 PMBrandon, Yes, ask the Kennedys where to find it.
Posted by: jdkelly at March 17, 2006 8:52 PMI applied to be a vendor at the SF gay pride parade.Application said flat out first priority for spaces (in much demand, it is a lucrative event) were to gays and family members of gays.
No, I didn't get a site.
Posted by: David at March 17, 2006 10:11 PM